Kolkata/Birpara: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday fired salvos at each other on the last day of the latter's three-day visit to the state where the saffron party wants to expand its footprint after a string of electoral successes.
"Such poverty is not there anywhere else in the country," Shah told a meeting of booth-level BJP workers in Kolkata while winding up his three-day visit to the state.
With the political fortunes of Congress and the Left in a free fall, the BJP has been trying to claim their space in the eastern state.
In the 2016 Assembly polls, BJP garnered around 56 lakh votes, up from 19.5 lakh in 2011. In the state where the party hardly had any presence a few years ago, its candidates had polled more than 10,000 votes in 262 out of 294 Assembly segments.
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